single-celled
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The researchers also compared blood cells with unicellular organisms in an effort to identify possible single-celled ancestors.
From Science Daily • May 27, 2026
The region also preserves some of the earliest evidence of life, including stromatolites and microbialite formations created by single-celled organisms such as cyanobacteria.
From Science Daily • Mar. 21, 2026
The research draws inspiration from single-celled slime molds that self-organize when starving.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 1, 2025
A slime mould consists of mobile, single-celled, amoeba-like organisms that live independently but can come together to function as a single entity in order to find food and reproduce.
From BBC • Aug. 26, 2025
Embryogenesis could be reimagined as the gradual unfurling of gene regulation from a single-celled embryo.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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